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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 460-478, November 2025.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
wiley   +1 more source

Nouns in Grammatica Turcico Latina

open access: yesJournal of Literature and Humanities, 2022
Nurdan BESLİ, Yaşar TOKAY
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese aru, iru, oru 'to be' : [oru ist bin aru] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Among the Japanese expressions for 'to be', the verbs aru (unmarked), iru (animate subject) and oru (humble variant of iru) are of special interest (cf. Martin 1975: 194f. for a descriptive account). We may look for cognates of these verbs in the (other)
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Marquette University Slavic Institute Papers NO. 19 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
https://epublications.marquette.edu/mupress-book/1010/thumbnail ...
Dvornik, Francis
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Turkic-Mongolian Names of Wild Predatory and Fur-bearing Animals in the Mongolian Languages

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article reviews a group of terms for wild prey and fur-bearing animal nominalization with the aim to identify their Turkic roots. The investigation is based on the materials of the Khalkha-Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk and Old Mongolian languages.
V. Rassadin, S. Trofimova
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On Uzbek converb constructions expressing motion events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Converbs, which are widely used in Turkic languages, constitute a number of converb constructions conveying aspectual and Aktionsart meanings. These constructions, often called 'auxiliary verb constructions', have been well studied.
Vandewalle, Johan
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Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: a case study of Ashkenazi Jews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das and co-authors have attempted to trace the homeland of Ashkenazi Jews and of their historical language, Yiddish (Das et al. 2016.
Changmai, P   +5 more
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Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 5, Page 1594-1614, September 2025.
Abstract This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how ...
Laura Luciani
wiley   +1 more source

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